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121) Madame Bovary
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English
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Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her, however, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence.
Author
Publisher
Vida
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"I Just Want You to Know. In this intimate, honest, and humorous book, pastors and international communicators Andres and Kelly Spyker share on their 20-year marriage and the non-negotiable principles that have helped them to consistently overcome their differences and deepen their resolve to be a unified team, while still fostering each other's dreams and potential. Andres and Kelly Spyker present us with a book in which we learn about relationships,...
123) Beautiful lies
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
Author
Publisher
International Collectors Library
Pub. Date
[1949]
Language
English
Description
Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her, however, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence
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Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friends to look into a series of petty crimes that are perplexing the local Mounties in the picturesque Canadian city of Victoria, they immediately jump on a plane to British Columbia and settle themselves into the heart of the local community. Drinking champagne with the local businessman and would-be politician as well as cups of tea with the local recluse, they infiltrate...
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
1964-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her, however, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence.
An ordinary woman's unfulfilled...
128) Coda
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an apocalypse which wiped out nearly all magic from a once-wondrous fantasy world, an antisocial former bard named Hum seeks a way to save the soul of his wife with nothing but a foul-tempered mutant unicorn and his wits to protect him. But in the process, he is unwillingly drawn into a brutal power struggle which will decide forever who rules the weird wasteland
The long-awaited deluxe hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-nominated,...
Author
Series
Zuckerman novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
ra Ringold, a ditchdigger from Newark, rises to prominence in the 1940s as a radio star and is betrayed by his new wife, silent film star Eve Frame, who reveals his Communist connections during the McCarthy witch hunts of the early 1950s.
"The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. "Gripping.... A masterly,...
130) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
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Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In My Two Elaines, author Marty Schreiber, former governor of Wisconsin, watches his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman he fell in love with in high school, and who diligently supported his political career, to the Elaine who knows she is declining and can't remember how to cook a meal, and finally to the Elaine who no longer recognizes Marty or their children.
132) Sunrise
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
c2008 [2013]
Language
English
Description
This story of betrayal and redemption earned Oscars at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 for the most 'Unique And Artistic Picture,' Best Actress and Best Cinematography. The love and loyalty of a farmer and his wife are put to the ultimate test in this classic silent film.
133) The salt path
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Language
English
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"Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives.
In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...
136) She's funny that way
Publisher
Red Granite
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career.
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 51
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband’s closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned—he has recently...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Adolescent love between Bentinho, an only child of a rich widow, and Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government offical, is made impossible by a vow made before Bentinho's birth.
"A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur. Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century...
139) Gaslight
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity
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